Rich Egger

Preliminary information from the National Weather Service shows reports of heavy rainfall throughout the region during the 72-hour period ending at 7 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16.

The Macomb Board of Education voted 6-to-0 on Monday night to part ways with Journey12 , the company that produced the quarterly Flight Path magazine about the district's students, staff, and alumni.

The city of Keokuk said it's making progress in efforts to clean up and redevelop the abandoned Elkem Carbide property at 365 Carbide Lane.

The Macomb Park District says a settlement agreement has been reached over a private water slide that extends into a public park.

Western Illinois University's president said she's optimistic as a new school year gets underway.

The Adequate and Equitable Public University Funding Formula Act stalled in the legislature this spring, but could come up for a vote in the fall veto session or during January's lame duck session.

Democratic Congressman Eric Sorensen said he will make a $772,700 Community Project Funding request on behalf of Western Illinois University.

A traveling exhibit about the Holocaust is designed to take people back to the 1930s and 1940s and make them think about how they might have responded to the stories coming out of Nazi Germany.

A McDonough County jury found a man guilty of shooting two Macomb police officers two years ago.

Three employee groups at Western Illinois University have new contracts. The agreements are with the Fraternal Order of Police, heating plant/mechanical maintenance workers, and landscape maintenance workers.